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The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the…
The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woeful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel privileges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel priviledges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE IV.
Let it be for a loud call to barren souls in the vineyard, at last to bear fruit, and to make ••aste so to do: It is God only who […] word powerful, and work that […] but yet there is a calling of the […] by Gospel invitati••• and this Truth speaks very loudly to all those that have been a great while unprofitable, and on whom uncountable means of grace have seemed to have been thrown away; who have been wearying out of a great deal of Gods forbearance; and yet he affords them one season more, one opportunity longer; ⟨p. 297⟩let this Doctrine awaken you to a diligent improving of it, to be no longer barren; let the time past suffice you, to have lived in sin and vanity: as you would escape this fearful destruction, use all possible endeavours, and go to God in Christs Name with the greatest importunity begging of him that he will make you fruitful: and that I may press this Exhortation upon you forcibly, let me offer these things to your serious consideration.
Let it be for a loud call to barren souls in the vineyard, at last to bear fruit, and to make ••aste so to do: It is God only who 〈…〉 word powerful, and work that 〈…〉 but yet there is a calling of the 〈…〉 by Gospel invitati••• and this Truth speaks very loudly to all those that have been a great while unprofitable, and on whom uncountable means of grace have seemed to have been thrown away; who have been wearying out of a great deal of Gods forbearance; and yet he affords them one season more, one opportunity longer; ⟨p. 297⟩let this Doctrine awaken you to a diligent improving of it, to be no longer barren; let the time past suffice you, to have lived in sin and vanity: as you would escape this fearful destruction, use all possible endeavours, and go to God in Christs Name with the greatest importunity begging of him that he will make you fruitful: and that I may press this Exhortation upon you forcibly, let me offer these things to your serious consideration.